The horses arrived first. The applause never did.
That is the image Pakistanis have been passing around since Saturday: two of the country’s senior bureaucrats, riding into an Independence Day parade in a carriage built for heads of state, to a crowd that would not clap.
HUNZA: The body of Pakistani mountaineer Sohail Sakhi was laid to rest on Sunday in his home village of Aliabad, in the Hunza district of Gilgit-Baltistan, following funeral prayers attended by hundreds of mourners, more than a fortnight after he was killed in an avalanche on one of the world’s highest peaks.
Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has refused to accept a federal government plan to deduct 6.4 billion rupees from its share of monthly revenue transfers, deepening a fiscal standoff between Islamabad and one of its four provinces over control of constitutionally mandated funds.
ISLAMABAD: Norway’s foreign minister arrived in Islamabad on Thursday carrying his own luggage off a commercial flight, an unassuming entrance that briefly overshadowed the substance of the first visit by a Norwegian foreign minister to Pakistan in ten years.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s cybercrime agency has arrested 114 foreign nationals in Islamabad, accusing them of running an online sextortion and romance-fraud network out of a company registered as a legitimate IT business.
KARACHI: Investigators probing the murder of young Karachi businessman Mir Raza Ali have enlisted the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) in an attempt to unlock his digital footprint, as the case took several fresh turns this week, including the removal of the doctor who conducted the first post-mortem examination.
KARACHI: Investigators examining the murder of the young Karachi entrepreneur Mir Raza Ali have received a chemical examiner’s report and the results of a DNA test, but say the findings are not yet conclusive enough to point the investigation in a clear direction, sources close to the case said.
The government lowered the retail price of petrol while raising the cost of high-speed diesel on Tuesday, the latest adjustment since authorities scrapped weekly fuel-price reviews in favor of daily ones — a shift officials have linked to the volatility gripping oil markets since the war between the US and Iran broke out in February.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan left retail prices for gasoline and diesel unchanged for Tuesday after international benchmark data needed to calculate a new rate failed to materialise, a gap that underscores the growing pains of a pricing system introduced just weeks ago to respond faster to swings in global oil markets.
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government has decided to seek a judicial commission to investigate the killing of 25-year-old businessman Mir Raza Ali, the province’s home minister said on Sunday, as authorities moved to overhaul the inquiry into a death that has gripped Karachi for more than a week.
